Quadruple split

Harpies are a relatively rare race. Compared with the mainstream humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, gnomes, lizardmen, and orcs (all) on the "Innocent Continent", their number is much smaller. , not even as good as half-dragons. The total number of people on the entire continent is similar to that of elves or goblins, such as tree elves, highland elves and other large branches. Although it has not reached the point of survival crisis, it is definitely the total number of advanced intelligent races. The least one.

The main reason why the number of harpies is scarce is not only that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a partner these days, but also has a lot to do with their body structure.

First of all, harpies are the only race in the entire continent that is compatible with viviparous and egg-laying. In other words, their physiological structure not only supports the direct birth of fetuses and can provide breast milk like humans and elves, but they can also be like dragons. Like the lizard people, they give birth to the next generation by laying eggs, and this miraculous physiological condition is unique to the harpy race in the entire [Innocence Continent].

So strictly speaking, harpies are even different from every race in the world, and they are 'alien' that need to be separated separately.

Of course, except for a few scholars who care about this aspect, most people don't care whether they are heterogeneous or not. For ordinary people, it doesn't matter whether your chromosomes are mainstream or not. What matters is whether your appearance is mainstream or not.

From this aspect, the harpy race can be said to be quite mainstream. Even with the addition of wings and sharp eagle claws below the calves, it still conforms to the mainstream aesthetic. In addition, their clothing style It is relatively cool and wild, and can even be said to be 'popular'.

It needs to be mentioned here that there are still very few lizardmen, gray dwarves, harpies, wild boars, etc. in the blood barbarian style. Everyone has seen a lot of mainstream lizardmen. For harpies, you can refer to the original ink The small community that Tan and others rescued from Dabus' mouth near Anka Market, although they live in groups in the woods, they often interact with other races, and their style of painting is much gentler.

In terms of partners, since harpies are all 'female', unless there are extreme cases, they can only choose to combine with foreign races. Also because of the special physique of harpies, they have nothing to do with most races. reproductive isolation.

In short, many harpies who have reached the age will choose to leave the settlement and go outside to do what they like. Most of them will find their favorite partner in the process including but not limited to doing business, engaging in art or taking risks. And lived with each other briefly until she became pregnant.

After pregnancy, the harpies will know whether the child is a viviparous boy or an egg-born girl three months before giving birth. At this time, if the boy is born from the father's race, they will continue to stay with their partner and then give birth to the child normally. , but if the child is a harpy like herself, then she will temporarily say goodbye to her partner, return to her own settlement to lay eggs, and then return to her partner after entrusting the child to her sisters of the same race.

After that, if the emotional relationship between the two parties is stable and there are children, the harpy will accompany her partner until the son reaches adulthood, and then return to her own settlement. Of course, there are also those who have a particularly good relationship and choose to grow old together with each other, but most women The demon will still leave its partner after the eldest son reaches adulthood.

If the relationship is not stable...then what else can you say? Just go back to your parents' house as soon as possible.

To sum up, the harpies in the settlement are basically young girls in their twenties, and old girls over forty years old, while the banshee girls in between are outside Traveling around the world, looking for encounters.

So the question is, after talking so much about the harpy, what does it have to do with Luna wanting Lysa to be her assistant?

The reason is very simple. As we said before, the harpy is different from ordinary people in terms of physique.

To expand on the explanation, according to the records in Luna's notebook, the harpy race has always had unique talents in alchemy, although their upper limit in the field of mysticism except for the druid is very low. , so that almost no one has tried to become a spell caster or an 'alchemist' who has a close relationship with a spell caster. But if the notes in Luna's hand are not deceiving, then the harpy is likely to be the most compatible with alchemy in the entire continent. There is no such thing as a good race.

This theory has not been recognized by the world, nor has it been proven to be true or effective in any form. In fact, if someone published an article titled "Harpies and Alchemy Are Compatible", most of them would be criticized by academics. The world has criticized it as a negative teaching material for ten or eight years. After all, this race has basically never produced any spellcasters or alchemists.

But Luna's notebook clearly stated that although harpies do not have advantages in the fields of magic power and elemental sensing, they are highly sensitive to more than 70% of mainstream alchemical materials, and this sensitivity It is something that ordinary alchemists can only obtain through years of experimentation and study.

Without other advantages, this alone is enough to save an orthodox alchemist from nearly twenty years of detours, and the success rate of experiments will be higher than the average.

Of course, this is just a theory, because the author of the notes himself failed to persuade any harpy to embark on the path of alchemy. In other words, when the above idea was still in the brewing stage, he was in a He was killed in an accident that was unexpected and reasonable.

But today, as the new owner of the notebook, the alchemist girl Luna Lynch, who is only in her early twenties, has taken this step and taken it upon herself to take over a young but independent-minded person who is in the midst of a crisis. The harpy, who is in the stage of strongest learning ability, has embarked on the profound and mysterious path of alchemy.

In fact, the previous owner of the note had visited many harpy settlements, but was repeatedly turned away after making his appeal. This was actually not a rare thing, because it was indeed a bit too suspicious. It is just as suspicious for an ordinary elementary school student outside the game to be told by a strange monster that he will become a great chemist in the future and leave his name in history. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to be rejected in front of normal children and normal parents.

To be honest, if you want to tell a child, "You will definitely become an e-sports master in the future, so play games with your uncle," the child may still be willing to listen to you, but you just say, "Do chemistry with your uncle and do exams." Well, even if parents are willing, most children who are naturally playful will not give you this face.

But that was only under normal circumstances after all, and this wild land was not a normal place, so Luna was confident that neither Lysa nor her parents would refuse this offer from Doumboua City. Requirements for those who walk with the Just Son.

After all, Luna is now certain that she has indeed cured Lysa's 'brain disease', and with the 'emergency rations' distributed to people, people here will only think that it is a good thing to follow her.

Although there are not as many twists and turns as Mo Tan, Luna can still figure out this level of logic.

All in all, she now needs an assistant who can get started in a short time to share the work, and Lysa, a polite and sensible little harpy, appears in front of her just right.

Everything that follows will fall into place.

And there is a particularly important point, that is, compared to other harpies, Lysa has a decisive difference, that is, her brain has undergone [Human Refining] for less than three seconds in total!

If the racial advantages mentioned in the notes can determine the so-called 'lower limit', then a smart and excellent mind will directly affect the more important 'upper limit'.

There is a saying that when Lysa stared with bright eyes and unleashed a barrage of verbal violence (physical) on Luna, the latter really felt a sense of fate in a trance.

You know, Luna Lynch has never been a person who is interested in attacking the brains of innocent people. In other words, only Lysa can't remove her 'brain disease' without using her human body to refine it, even if she tries. Only a girl whose failure situation will only get better and not worse can make Luna take action without hesitation.

If it was a normal brain, then no matter how careful and malicious Luna was, there was a high probability that it would cause irreversible damage to her brain, and only a 30% chance of producing an unpredictable positive effect.

But for Lysa, if her previous brain score was 45 points and a normal person's score was 80 points, then after being forcibly 'refined', there is a 70% chance that it will be raised to 55-65 points, a 30% chance Steadily over 80, and because of this, Luna would make a direct judgment in this situation, which would only be beneficial to Lysa anyway.

It needs to be emphasized here that the above scores are only a very one-sided 'performance' score. Simply put, they are hardware parameters and have little to do with actual intelligence. A simple example is the brain of Cordoba, a normal person. It is 80 points, and the Futaba brain of a normal person is also 80 points, but under the same hardware parameters, there is a big gap in the 'intelligence' they display. In other words, even if Lysa has obtained better hardware The conditions don't mean that this girl can punch Tan Mo and step on Shuangye, and defeat the likes of Gavin, Foster, and Fiyali with her brains.

However, these messes are currently out of Luna's consideration. At this moment, she is simply enjoying this moment of silence while fighting against the backlash in her body that wants to tear her apart.

No one can master this level of taboo knowledge [Human Refining] without paying any price, and to a certain extent, Luna is actually paying the price of this power all the time.

For example, a large part of the reason she rarely slept was the need to rebuild her slowly crumbling body while awake.

For example, the potion she made was difficult to swallow. The fundamental reason was that she had lost her normal sense of taste for too long. Although she barely regained it some time ago, she also lost the ability to distinguish between 'delicious' and 'unpalatable'. Now she may be able to distinguish between 'sweet' and 'bitter', but she is unable to judge which of them is a positive taste without thinking like most people.

A chef who loses his sense of taste may still be able to cook a good meal.

An alchemist has lost his sense of taste. The only reason why the things she made are not the ceiling of the catering industry in [Innocent Realm] is that Ji Xiaoge is too strong.

But none of this matters...

After successfully suppressing the backlash, Luna closed the note and walked slowly to Lysa, who was studying the illustrations on the pages with a wrinkled face, the small wings behind her back trembling unconsciously, and asked lightly: "do you understand?"

"Wow!"

The startled girl suddenly raised her head, and when she saw it was Luna, she immediately showed a sweet and big smile: "I feel a little understanding and a little confused, but Lesa is trying hard to understand what big sister can do. We can’t let Lysa…”

"Need not."

Taking the note back from Lysa's arms, Luna said to the girl who was very cooperative but had a look of reluctance on her face: "For a qualified alchemist, practice is much more important than theory. Of course, The premise is that you can ensure your own safety during the experiment.”

"ah……"

Lesa was stunned for a moment, then lowered her face in disappointment and muttered: "But Lesa can't guarantee her own safety."

"It doesn't matter."

Luna shook her head and said calmly: "You are different from me. When I did the first experiment in my life, I only had an alchemy notebook beside me."

Lesa blinked, and then looked down at her empty little hands: "But Lesa doesn't have any notes. Or should I say that the ones that big sister showed me just now are considered notes. In that case, Lesa will be just like her sister. But My sister also said that we are different, so why are we different?"

"The difference is..."

Luna turned to look at the alchemy table next to her, and emptied the potion residue in the crucible. While taking out the materials on the pages that Lysa had just seen from the cabinet and placing them around the crucible, she said calmly: "I was There are only alchemy notes around you, but you...have me."

"Ah! Big sister, do you mean to protect Lysa? But Lysa doesn't want to cause trouble to big sister, so if she can read the book for a while, maybe..."

"Someone who wasn't very smart told me that it would be foolish not to take a shortcut, and I don't want my assistant to be a fool. Do you understand?"

"I understand, big sister, I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize, now I want you to try to use these materials to make a dose of life and death water."

"Water of life and death?"

"Powerful sleeping pills. The two pages of illustrations you just looked at are the simple process of making the water of life and death. The steps are all above and the materials are here. Let's do it. If there are any equipment you don't know how to use, just ask me directly."

"Am I going to mess up?"

"With me here, it's difficult."

"I know, big sister, I will definitely work hard, but Lysa suddenly feels a little dizzy and a little hurt. I don't know why!"

"Lack of oxygen..."

"?"

"Just shut up and focus on breathing."

"I know, big sister, but why is Lysa missing..."

"Shut up."

"..."

Chapter 1,759: End